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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Ed, the last line of your response, about
taking these methods beyond the clinic, has also been a major effort of mine for
over 20 years: In 1985 I wrote a monograph about using these techniques in
everyday life---sort of summarized in Gershoni's 2003 anthology--- and have been
active in wanting to see Moreno's ideas utilized in the many types of applied
theatre (have you read my anthology about that yet, 2007? <A
href="http://www.interactiveimprov.com/">www.interactiveimprov.com/</A>
) in education, and other institutions. So there has now accumulated a
fair amount of cultural conserve about the "some how, some way," and these in
turn offer ready opportunities for amplification and development. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> Warmly,
Adam</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=edwschreiber@earthlink.net
href="mailto:edwschreiber@earthlink.net">Edward Schreiber</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=adam@blatner.com
href="mailto:adam@blatner.com">Adam Blatner</A> ; <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 31, 2009 2:50 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Commencement Speech</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi Adam,
<DIV>Thank you for the thoughtful response to Paul Hawkin's speech. I
liked this paragraph (yours) very much:
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So we don't need to begin "de novo," as if nothing previously has been
thought about the present situation. In fact, many good minds have given it
much thought, many tools are available---such as Moreno's---to use. And yet
they will need to be used, modified, revisions or refinements invented,
occasionally replaced---for use by and for oneself and perhaps for others,
too. This is the creative challenge.</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>I see psychodrama, sociometry, sociodrama as tools that can be used,
modified, revisions or refinements invented, etc. I am a theorist
though, in that I pretty much agree with everything Moreno created. The
refinement is what I am thinking mostly about, particularly taking the tools,
instruments, method, philosophy out of the clinic into the world, some way,
some how, more fully. I'm compelled in this way, it is my creative
energy alive.</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks Adam!</DIV>
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<DIV>Ed</DIV>
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